On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 16:48 +0200, Karl-Olov Serrander wrote: > Hi ! > > I have problems with my file associations in nautilus on a machine > with FC6, fully updated. > > When I click on a file.odt created with openoffice-2.0.4 I get: > Cannot open file.odt. The filename indicates this is "ODT Document", > but the contents indicates "java Archive" > > I need to rightclick and use "Open with" > > What can cause this ? I have other FC6 machines also fully updated, > without the problem. A poor filetype matcing mechanism is the cause of the fault. Both Java JAR files and OpenOffice.org files are files packed in a ZIP archive. The filetyping scheme is too dumb to tell them apart, and claims that they're whatever it thinks a ZIP file is. You can try flip flopping the default over to it thinking all such files are OpenOffice.org files, by right-clicking, opening the properties, and changing the open-with program. But then you'll have the reverse problem, but if you never double-click JAR files, or ZIP files, that won't matter to you. -- (This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
